I just had a blatent scam call from somebody claiming to be a Microsoft technician. Nothing better to do this morning so has some fun with them. 
They did the usual like ask me to boot up my computer and time how long it took. I said 5 seconds. She sounded suprised and asked about my computer which explained was a Hex Core i7 with a multi SSD's in Raid 0 etc etc. I also managed to throw it in there that I was a software developer.
Anyway not deterred by this in the slightest she explained how I had malicious software that I had got from clicking a pop-up. I ever so sarcastically explained how suprised I was that my internet security, antivirus, firewalls etc had not protected me from this! I obviously know nothing as apparently this is some kind of different malware that is not picked up by any of this.
I then put her on hold for 10 mins to weatch tele while I got my "brother" to help, which was just me again with a stupid accent.
Still not deterred she took "my brother" to the windows application error logs, where the errors were "proof" of the damage this malware was causing. I was getting bored now so called BS on this to see what response I got.
She said if I was the expert maybe I could correct her, so I did, in great detail. Then I had a rant about what I though of her and what she was up to and it kind of went downhill from there.
I kind of wished I played along a bit more to find out what their "solution" was. I did some googling and it turns out to be a download from a website that allows them to remote on, get you passwords, bank details etc, and generally **** up your computer.
Anyway thought I would share. Have any other geeks played along to these virus / malware calls? It's quite fun.
They did the usual like ask me to boot up my computer and time how long it took. I said 5 seconds. She sounded suprised and asked about my computer which explained was a Hex Core i7 with a multi SSD's in Raid 0 etc etc. I also managed to throw it in there that I was a software developer.
Anyway not deterred by this in the slightest she explained how I had malicious software that I had got from clicking a pop-up. I ever so sarcastically explained how suprised I was that my internet security, antivirus, firewalls etc had not protected me from this! I obviously know nothing as apparently this is some kind of different malware that is not picked up by any of this.
I then put her on hold for 10 mins to weatch tele while I got my "brother" to help, which was just me again with a stupid accent.
Still not deterred she took "my brother" to the windows application error logs, where the errors were "proof" of the damage this malware was causing. I was getting bored now so called BS on this to see what response I got.
She said if I was the expert maybe I could correct her, so I did, in great detail. Then I had a rant about what I though of her and what she was up to and it kind of went downhill from there.
I kind of wished I played along a bit more to find out what their "solution" was. I did some googling and it turns out to be a download from a website that allows them to remote on, get you passwords, bank details etc, and generally **** up your computer.
Anyway thought I would share. Have any other geeks played along to these virus / malware calls? It's quite fun.
